Chinese almanac (Huangli), 5 April 2014

Saturday · Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day)

Lunar date

农历甲午年三月初六

甲午 (Jiawu) · Year of the Horse · 戊辰丙午

Nayin Water of the Milky Way

Solar term today

Pure Brightness

Pentad · tóng shǐ huá

Next solar term · Grain Rain 2014-04-20

Auspicious

Betrothal gifts · Weddings · Consecrating sacred images · Travel · Haircut · Visiting family and friends · Opening for business · Placing the bed · Planting · Raising livestock · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Opening a grave for reburial

Avoid

Thanking the Earth God · Praying for blessings · Raising the ridge beam · Building a stove · Fasting and Taoist rites · Building and repairs · Moving into a new home · Installing doors

Clash: Rat · Sha direction north
Day god: Heavenly Punishment · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer: Full
Lunar mansion: Stomach · auspicious
Nine star: 四绿木
Fetus god: 厨灶碓房内东
Directions: Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
Peng Zu's taboos: 丙不修灶必见灾殃午不苫盖屋主更张

Auspicious stars

yuè kōng · sì xiāng · shí dé · mín rì · tiān wū · fú dé · míng fèi

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · dà shà · Heavenly Punishment

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59	戊子	Golden Coffer
01:00–02:59	己丑	Heavenly Virtue	Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs · Building a stove
03:00–04:59	庚寅	White Tiger	Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
05:00–06:59	辛卯	Jade Hall	Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
07:00–08:59	壬辰	Heavenly Prison	Weddings · Moving into a new home · Burial · Building and repairs
09:00–10:59	癸巳	Black Tortoise	Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
11:00–12:59	甲午	Controller of Fate	Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
13:00–14:59	乙未	Hooked Array	Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
15:00–16:59	丙申	Azure Dragon	Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59	丁酉	Bright Hall	Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings
19:00–20:59	戊戌	Heavenly Punishment	Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
21:00–22:59	己亥	Vermilion Bird	Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings
23:00–23:59	庚子	Heavenly Punishment

The almanac (huangli) is a Chinese folk tradition. Its rules come from historical texts such as the Xieji Bianfang Shu (1739); it is shown here as cultural heritage, not as a prediction or advice.

This day in other calendars

Gregorian calendar: 5 April 2014
Julian calendar: 23 March 2014 (Julian)
Chinese calendar (Nongli): Jiawu year (Horse), month 3, day 6
Korean calendar (Dangi): Dangi 4347, month 3, day 6
Tibetan calendar (Phugpa): Rabjung 17, Wood Horse year, month 2, day 6
Hebrew calendar: 5 Nisan 5774 AM
Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura): 5 Jumada al-Akhirah 1435 AH
Solar Hijri calendar (Persian): 16 Farvardin 1393 SH
Ethiopian calendar: 27 Megabit 2006 EC
Coptic calendar: 27 Paremhat 1730 AM
Indian national calendar (Saka): 15 Chaitra 1936 Saka
Japanese era calendar: Heisei 26, April 5
Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era): 5 April BE 2557
Minguo calendar: 5 April, Minguo 103
Maya calendars: 13.0.1.5.10 6 Ok 3 Pop
Aztec calendars: 6 Itzcuintli (dog), 2 Tlaxochimaco
Ancient Egyptian civil calendar: 21 Mesori, Shemu (harvest), year 2762 of Nabonassar
Roman calendar: a.d. X Kal. Apr., 2767 AUC